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The comments of the well-known journalist Tom Brokaw on the need for "greater assimilation" by the Hispanic community in the United States have underlined the validity of the myth about miscegenation, and the residual colonialism in the country.

Latinos account for just 13 percent of newcomers and Asians total about 15 percent, according to a study released by Pew Charitable Trusts. Non-Hispanic whites made up 50 percent of new arrivals to the City of Brotherly Love while representing just 36 percent of the total population.

A controversial immigration bill introduced by Republican Senator Pat Toomey is scheduled for a vote at the U.S. Senate today. The proposed law would strip millions of federal funding from “sanctuary cities.”

Erika Almiron from Philadelphia-based organization Vamos Juntos says she received countless phone calls immediately after the announcement was made. Community members and even activists within her organization were confused about how the ruling would impact their own status and whether enforcement priorities would swing back to ICE-led raids, which paralyzed parts of Philadelphia earlier this year.

As presidential nominee Donald Trump continues to berate a California judge for his Mexican parentage and alleged conflict of interest in presiding over a case against Trump University, a more nuanced conversation is taking place in small cities throughout the United States.

On May 14, Muniz will receive his undergraduate and masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Alongside fellow student Sade Oba, Muniz won the 2016 President's Innovation Prize, awarded by the institution.

News of the gradual death of the oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the country is something that, sadly, could be the beginning of the end of an era for Hispanic print media in the United States.

Just like it could happen to the rest of the Latino press in the US — which this newspaper has represented for over a 100 years — news of the gradual death of the oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the country is something that, sadly, could be the beginning of the end of an era for U.S. Hispanic media.